reverting changes nondestructively

[Robin Farine]

On Saturday December 3 2005 04:01, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Robin Farine wrote:
> > On Fri December 2 2005 03:24, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> >> BTW, does hg have any concept like svn about having the
> >> working directory be at a particular revision?
> >
> > "hg identify" tells you the tree's current revision and "hg
> > update REV" allows you to switch it to a specific revision.
>
> This does not seem to work. In the following, fbcdd00bd0a9 is the
> tip. If I switch the working tree to an earlier revision, I get
> the same id, but with a '+' in front.

> faheem ~/scratch/debian-reference>hg revert -r 4

I wrote *update*, not revert.